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English Language Autograph Letters: HEA-HEY
Date: 1765-1910Reference: MS.8854- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: Leach-Leslie
Date: 1682-1912Reference: MS.8891- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: HAR
Date: 1756-1952Reference: MS.8912- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: HAS-HAY
Date: 1766-1884Reference: MS.8913- Archives and manuscripts
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Gilbertus Anglicus, Practica medicinae in Middle English, plus miscellaneous practical medical treatises (Miscellanea Medica VII)
Date: 1462Reference: MS.537- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: GO
Date: 1680-1922Reference: MS.9142- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: FA-FE
Date: 1695-1911Reference: MS.9160- Books
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The new and complete book of martyrs, or, an universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of martyrs, revised and corrected with Additions and great Improvements. Containing Not only a New, Copious, Complete, Universal and Authentic Account of the Lives, Actions, Characters, Trials, Religious Principles, Sufferings, Tortures, and Triumphant Deaths, of the English Protestant Martyrs, In the Reign of Queen Mary the First. But also a Genuine, Full, and Circumstantial History of all the many dreadful and cruel Persecutions against the Church of Christ, in all Parts of the World, by Papists, Pagans, Jews, Turks, and Others, From the very Earliest Ages of the Church, to the Present Period. Comprehending the Life, Meritorious Sufferings, and Martyrdom of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, with the Martyrdoms of the Apostles, Evangelists, Disciples, and other Primitive Martyrs. - And including the Ten Great Persecutions, under the Roman Emperors, and many other Particulars under the following General Heads: An Ecclesiastical History of the Persecutions in Persia, under Sapores: and the Persecutions under the Arian Vandals. - The horried Persecutions under the Papacy; particularly the Martyrdoms of the Waldenses and Albigenses in France. - The Persecutions in Germany and Poland. - The Cruelties exercised in Bohemia and Lusatia. - The Martyrdoms in Italy. - The shocking Barbarities practised by the Inquisitions of Spain, Portugal, Goa, &c. and the Popish Persecutions of the Protestants during the Massacre of Paris. - A full Account of all the English Martyrdoms, particularly those in the Times of King Henry Viii. and Queen Mary I. wherein are amply displayed all the Butcheries, Tortures, and Cruelties exercised by the Roman Catholics against the Protestants, in the Reign of that tyrannical King and bloody Queen. - The Persecutions of the Quakers, &c. - Persecutions in the West of England by Judge Jeffreys. - Persecutions in Holland, Flanders, Scotland, &c. - The bloody Irish Massacre. - The great Spanish Invasion. - The dreadful Fire of London. - The shocking Gunpowder Plot. - The horrid Conspiracies in 1678. - The barbarous Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, and the Designs of Perkins, Friend, and Fenwick, for the Re-Establishment of Popery, and the Extirpation of Protestantism. - The Martyrdoms of the Missionaries in China. - The Persecutions in the East-Indies. - The Barbarities exercised in America. - The Cruelties practised on the Christians of Abyssinia and Georgia. - The late Persecutions in France against the Calas Family. - Also the final Establishment of the Reformed Religion in the various Protestant Countries. - With a great Number of other Cruelties exercised against the Christian Martyrs, not related in any other Work of the Kind. Together with the Martyrdoms of The Faithful and Virtuous in the first Ages of the World; the Persecutions of the Maccabees by the Greeks; of the Hebrews by the Egyptians; and of the Children of Israel by the Philistiries, and other barbarous Nations. Throughout this Work will be Interspersed Accounts of several singular Judgments against Persecutors, a great Variety of Original Anecdotes, the Letters which passed between the Martyrs, Letters from Bishop Bonner, and other Papists, to the Magistrates, &c. concerning the Methods of Indictment and Treatment, Translations of Popish Bulls, and other Deeds of Destruction, levelled against the Protellants, in England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. &c. suitable Notes and practical Reflections adapted to the various Subjects, and many curious Lives and Memoirs; to which will be added; an Account of the Life and Death of the original Author, the Rev. Mr. John Fox. The Whole Forming At Once A General Christian Martyrology, and Complete History of Persecutions. A Work Calculated to promote the Protestant Religion, and expel Romish Superstition, and by giving a pious and Christian Turn to the Mind, be general Use and Advantage to Mankind. The whole originally composed by the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M. A. formerly of Magdalen College, Oxford, And Prebendary in the Church of Balisbury; And now revised, corrected and improved, with many necessary additional Articles relating to the Acts and Monuments of the Church, not to be found in any other Publication of this Sort, and written in a clear intelligible Stile, free from that Obscurity of Language, and Tediousness of Diction, as well as that impertect Brevity and Coheiseness, which have been so much complained of in former Works of this kind. By Paul Wright, D. D. F. S. A. Vicar of Oakley and Rector of Snoreham in Essex. late of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge; and Author of the Complete British Family Bible, and of the New and Complete Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, elegantly printed in Folio; both of which Works (with the inimitable Sets of fine Copper-Plates) have met with universal Approbation, as the best and most perfectly complete Works of the Kind, for the Use of all Christian Families. Embellished with a great variety of copper-plates, representing the various Modes of cruelly torturing the Christian Martyrs for their Constancy.
Foxe, John, 1516-1587.Date: [1800?]- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 6
Date: Aug 1901 - Jul 1903Reference: WF/E/01/01/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: Kidd-Kramer
Date: 1794 - 1953Reference: MS.8898- Books
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A discourse of the nature, offices, and measures of friendship : with rules of conducting it : in a letter to M.K.P. : to which are added Two letters to persons changed in religion : also Three letters to a gentleman that was tempted to the communion of the Romish Church / written by Jer. Taylor.
Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667Date: 1671- Books
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The cry of injured innocence. In a series of letters to Mr. James Black, minister, Dundee. By J. Auchincloss, minister, Springfield, Liff.
Auchincloss, John, -1800.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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Averroeana : being a transcript of several letters from Averroes an Arabian philosopher at Corduba in Spain, to Metrodorus a young Grecian nobleman, student at Athens in the years 1149 and 1150 : also several letters from Pythagoras to the King of India, together with his reception at the Indian court, and an account of his discourse with the King, and his gymnosophists, and his rules and precepts : his account of the power and efficacy of numbers, and magical uses thereof : to which is prefixt, a Latin letter by Monsieur Grinau, one of the Messieurs du Port Royal in France, to the ingenius Monsieur Gramont, merchant at Amsterdam, concerning the subject of these papers, and how they came to his hands : the whole containing matters highly philosophical, physiological, Pythagorical and medicinal, the work having been long conceal'd is now put into English for the benefit of mankind, and the rectification of learned mistakes.
Averroës, 1126-1198Date: 1695- Books
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A letter from Mr. Lee to Mr. Sheridan
Lee, John, -1781.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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Letters to and from Alexander Pope, Esq; and others.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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A letter from Obadiah Shepherd to Doctor. Zealwag. I remember another Scrap of my vain Learning when I was a Boy. Clodius accusat Maechos. In English Methinks thou art very Black, qu? the Devil to the Collier.
Shepherd, Obadiah.Date: [1731]- Books
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Volume Vii. of the author's works: containing letters to and from Dr. J. Swift, D.S.P.D. from the year 1714, to 1738. As also, some free thoughts upon the present state of affairs.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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Le Chevalier Montenack's letter to Mr. H.B.J.U.Q.L.
Beverland, Hadriaan, 1650-1716.Date: 1710?]- Books
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Letters from a late eminent prelate to one of his friends.
Warburton, William, 1698-1779.Date: [1793?]- Books
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The works of Alexander Pope, Esq; Vol. IV. Part III. Containing the third part of Letters.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]- Books
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Thirteen letters on various religious subjects, recommended to the serious attention of devout members of the Church of England.
Date: 1793- Books
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Mr. Pope's literary correspondence. Volume the Fourth. With Letters, &c. To, and From, Mr. Addison. Bishop Atterbury. Bishop Barlow. Bishop Fleetwood. Bishop Smalbidge. Sir Berkeley Lucy. King Henry Viii. to Anne Boleyn. To which are added, Muscovian letters.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.Date: M.DCC.XXXVI. [1736]- Books
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Wits interpreter: the English Parnassus. Or, A sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing : In which briefly the whole mystery of those pleasing witchcrafts of eloquence and love, are made easie in the following subjects: viz. 1. Theatre of courtship, accurate complements. 2. The labyrinth of fancies, new experiments and inventions. 3. Apollo and Orpheus, several love-songs, epigrams, drollerys, and other verses. 4. Cyprian goddess, description of beauty. 5. The muses Elizium, severall poetical fictions. 6. The perfect inditer, letters a la mode. 7. Games and sports now us'd at this day among the gentry of England, &c. 8. Cardinal Richeleiu's key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers. As also an alphabetical table of the first devisers of sciences and other curiosities; all which are collected with industry and care, for the benefit and delight of those that love ingenious enterprises. The 3d edition with many new additions, by J.C.
Cotgrave, John, active 1655Date: MDCLXXI. [1671]- Books
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Letters of the late Alexander Pope, Esq. To a lady. Never before published.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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Letters of Mr. Wycherley & Mr. Pope, from the year 1704 to 1710.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.Date: 1735]